Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 550 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1160 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 550 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1160 g
Reihe: Brill's Studies in Maritime History
ISBN: 978-90-04-39816-0
Verlag: Brill
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Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
1 Structure
2 Caution
3 Editorial Matters
4 Currencies
part 1: The Legal, Executive, and Judicial Framework
1 Venice’s Privilege-Based Merchant Marine
1 Ship Registries and the San Marco Flag
2 Ships with Privileges and Those Without
2 The Corridors of Power: Venice’s Maritime Authorities
1 The Major State Authorities
2 Executive Authorities Involved in Commercial Shipping
3 The Enforcement of Sea Laws Overseas
3 The Protagonists: The Division of Ships into Classes and Groups
1 Ship Classes and Privileged-Based Ship Groups
2 The Carrack-Type Round Ship
3 Other Types of Vessels
4 Volume, Size, and Loading Lines
1 The botte and Other Units of Capacity
2 Overall and Partial Capacities of Vessels
3 Techniques to Calculate a Ship’s Capacity
4 The Relative Capacity of the Hold
5 Calculating the Carrying Capacity by Using Stowage Factors
6 The stimadori and the Administration
5 ‘Safety First’: Rules for the Safety and Security at Sea
1 Regulations against Overloading and Overcrowding
2 The Military Potential
3 The Quota of Professional Mariners and Crew on Board
4 The Quota of Professional Soldiers
5 Arms and Artillery Requirements
6 Convoys of Merchant Ships (conserva)
7 Mandatory Pilotage Services
8 Venetian Safety Standards for Hawsers, Cordage, and Anchors
6 Navigating Fiscal Chaos
1 The Vicissitudes of the Imposts on Ships
2 Duties on Ships in the Port of Venice
3 Negotiating Fiscal Privileges and Tax Concessions
4 The Tax Burden and the Incentive Structure It Gave Rise To
part 2: Shipping Enterprise and the World of Round Ships
7 From Forming to Dissolving a Shipping Company
1 The Organizational Structure of the Shipping Enterprise
2 Insuring Ship and Freightage
3 Settling the Accounts
4 The Unloading Procedure in Venice’s Port
8 Ship Biographies
1 The nave grossa Marcella, 1496–1503
2 Riding Out the Storm: The Biography of the Ship Dolfina, 1525–29
3 The Short History of the Priula, 1545–47
9 The Lifespan and Life-Cycle of Mediterranean Ships
1 Shipworms and the Maintenance of Wooden Vessels
2 Life-Expectancy Estimates
3 The Economic Viability of Round Ships
4 Costs of Construction, and the Depreciation of Value of Wooden Vessels
10 Can We Assess Profitability?
1 The Services Provided by the Shipping Industry
2 Sustaining a Liner Service against the Backdrop of Cargo Imbalance
3 The Role of the State in Providing Freights for Its Round Ships
4 Profits from Freightage and the ufficiali all’estraordinario
5 Was Shipping a Long-Term Profitable Business?
part 3: ‘Venetian Shipping during the Commercial Revolution’ Reconsidered
11 Fortunes Begin to Ebb, 1453–89
1 The Golden Age of Shipping, c. 1423–32
2 The Shipping Markets Following the Fall of Constantinople
3 The War That Triggered the Downturn, 1463–79
4 Shipping Fails to Rally in Response to Emerging New Realities, 1480–89
5 The Eclipse of Venice’s Oceanic Sea Lanes
12 The Roaring Nineties and the War with the Turks, 1490–1502
1 A Positive Trend in Shipping during the Last Decade of the 15th Century
2 The Merchant Marine c. July–August 1499: The War Effort
3 The Detrimental Effects of the War with the Turks on Shipping, 1499–1502
13 Venetian Shipping in Crisis, 1503–26
1 Venice’s Levant Trade in the First Quarter of the 16th Century
2 Dwindling Traffic in Port and the Loss of Hegemony over the Adriatic Sea
3 The Liberalization of Maritime Transport in the Western Mediterranean
4 ‘Venice Is Drying Up’
14 A Period of Stagnation, 1527–40
1 The Effects of a Rise in Natural Disasters on Shipping, 1527–33
2 The Shipping Reform Act of 1534/5
15 The Emergence of New Players in Maritime Transport, 1541–71
1 Regaining Momentum: Shipping and Trade Undergoing Liberalization
2 A New Golden Age or an Indian Summer?
3 The New Protagonists in Shipping and Trade
4 Digest of Tables and Graphs
Conclusions 356
1 The Aggregation of Vessels Hoisting the San Marco Flag
2 Resiliency or Decline?
3 Deforestation Was Not a Major Factor
4 The Agency of Environmental Factors in Venice’s Decline
5 Could the Senators Have Steered towards a Different Ending?
Appendix A: Snapshots of Venice’s Merchant Marine, 1480–1558
Appendix B: Estimates of the Size of Four Colonial Fleets, c. 1499
Appendix C: The Itinerary and Life Expectancy of Selected Round Ships
Appendix D: The Cost of Construction and the Value of Wooden Vessels
Appendix E: Net Incomes from Freights Transferred by the Cashier of the Estraordinario
Appendix F: Gross Incomes from Freights
Sources and Bibliography
Index